RES LIGUSTICAE CCXII Giovanni Salamanna & Stefania Raggio Istituto di Zoologia -Università di Genova, Italy SYNOPSIS OF THE PSYCHODINAE FROM THE LIGURIAN ALPS AND APENNINES (*) (diptera psychodidae) Introduction To day knowledges on the Italian Psychodidae are approding a fairly good level, even though they are still rather scanty for some areas (Sicily, Po Valley). In the last ten years research in the Ligurian Alps and Apennines became particularly frequent. These regions, in fact, are very important for faunistic and biogeographical studies and also close enough to our residence. Research was made easier by the constant help of many colleagues and friends. The area considered lies between River Magra on the East and Colle di Tenda and Val Roja on the West side ; the Monregalese region was also included (Fig. 1). Seventy-one species (about 58% of the Psychodinae known for Italy) are reported: 15 Psychodini, 15 Telmatoscopini and 41 Peri-comini. Six species are new to science {Psychoda villosa, Jungiella troia-noi, Berdeniella bodoni, B. gardinii, Szaboiella modenesii, Ulomyia mon-tanoi) and 12 more are new for the Italian fauna. We have excluded Psychoda tridentata Sarà & Salamanna, 1967, because we think the only female known (holotype) is likely to represent a teratological specimen. (*) This research was financially supported by cnr under « Gruppo Nazionale di Biologia Naturalistica », Contr. n. 3350340 and m.p.i. under « Gruppo Biogeografia del Mediterraneo Occidentale ». Annali Mus. Civ. St. Nat. G. Doria, Voi. LXXXV
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